DT- Timbers

What are the two main categories of Timbers?

• Natural and Produced
• Natural and Manufactured
• Natural and Man produced
• Natural and Manufaktured

What are the main types of Manufactured timbers?

• MDF, Plywood and Canite
• MDF, Plywood and Chipboard
• LDF, Plywood and Chipboard
• LDF, Plywood and Canite

What does MDF stand for?

• Medium Dense Fibres
• Medium Dense Fibreboard
• Medium Density Fibres
• Medium Density Fibreboard

MDF is used because it ...

• environmentally friendly, cheap and rough
• sustainable, hard to cut, good for moulds
• is cheap, smooth, easy to machine
• expensive, resistant to water, good for finishing

Hardwoods are usually trees that are called ...

• Deciduous
• Evergreen

Ash is used for sports equipment due to which property?

• Strength
• Elasticity
• Plasticity
• Durability

Oak is used for furniture. What property is good for furniture.

• Strength
• Elasticity
• Plasticity
• Brittleness

What are the 2 classifications of timbers

• hardwood

• fruit tree

• man made

• softwood

Where do man made woods come from?

• factory

• man made forest

• collection of recycled materials

• B&Q

Choose 3 hardwoods

• oak

• pine

• larch

• beech

• ash